PRINCIPALS of TECHVEST INTERNATIONAL
Ira Zalesin
, TechVest Senior Partner, Global Sales Management, Silicon Valley For the past 20 years Ira Zalesin has been a senior operations
executive in and board level advisor to numerous software and technology companies in North America and Europe. He specializes in the development and execution of profitable growth strategies -
both organic and M+A driven - for mid-size companies, and prior to joining TechVest was CMO of a major public, London-based supply chain software and e-commerce conglomerate. Steve Bishop, Global Project Management, based in Texas Steve has more than 40 years
experience in senior corporate management and project implementation, including IBM where he was manager of worldwide customer service systems. He has run startups and major corporate divisions , and
negotiated major strategic partnerships on all continents.
Michael S. Wu, based in North CarolinaSpecializing in Asian-sourced ventures and Seed Funding of ideas having Asian relevance or
markets, Michael brings more than eleven years of operating experience in engineering consultancy and product management and senior and executive management. He has been a venture advisor and fundraiser to
several high-tech and real estate ventures. Robert Valli, based in San Francisco Rob has had a distinguished career as a private banking executive and investment banker in San
Francisco with Montgomery Securities, Cambridge Partners, CS First Boston, and Bank of America, with all the attendant excellent investment and investor contacts. Recently he has been CEO of two early stage
venture companies. He has also been on the Board of Advisers of both Stanford and MIT Labs, among many other affiliations. Leigh Anne Lindsey, Fund Raising and VC Networking, based in Colorado
Leigh Anne has raised many millions of dollars with VC's and corporate partners, particularly for Silicon Valley ventures. She is presently
affiliated with ARK Ventures of Silicon Valley, California. Donald Pate, Global Sales & Distribution, based in Texas
Don has 33 years of senior sales management in computer technologies, and most recently served as international VP of Sales at Mylex, where he was
responsible for $70 million in sales before the company was sold to IBM. He helped start BusLogic and several other successful high-tech companies. Harry Ruda, Telecom Ventures, based in BostonOver 20 years, Harry
has dealt with every RBOC and many international carriers as strategic customers of emerging growth telecom technology ventures. His specialty is rapid access to big sales potentials and proper design of
growth strategies. He is presently CEO of Softricity, a streaming software venture in Massachusetts. Doug Sorensen, Business and Manufacturing, Analytics, Supply Chain, International Strategic Marketing, based in North Carolina Doug has been an international trade, business expansion and
strategic marketing consultant in Boston, Charlotte, Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, China and Jerusalem over a period of more than 20 years, a business planner for both international expansion, as well as venture
startups and mergers and acquisitions.
David Walters, European Mezzanine Funding, based in LondonDavid Walters was Managing Director of the US Venture Fund of
J. Henry Schroder Wagg, among several key executive roles over his years with that London-based investment bank. He has many investments to his credit and has access to all the institutional investment
community in Europe.
Michael Hentschel, TechVest Founder, North Carolina and CaliforniaMichael initially founded TechVest in 1983 while he was a venture
capitalist in California to provide a national network of experienced top management resources and financial networks to help new ventures succeed at every level. He has over the past 25 years been an
investment banker, international strategy consultant, venture capitalist partner in a $58mm Fund, development capital investor, board member, equity fund raiser, and executive manager (CEO, CFO, CSO) in
multiple venture and turnaround situations. |
